Past IMPACT Projects

The 2013-2014 IMPACT Social Entrepreneurship Award Winners

To Lemon Hill
Collaborators: A Turkish private school and an architecure firm
Izmir, Turkey

Ekin Balcioglu (MFA Fine Arts/MA Visual and Critical Studies)

Debbie Ebanks Schlums (MFA Fine Arts/MA Visual and Critical Studies)

Hubert Wong (BFA Film)

Calder Yates (MFA Fine Arts/MA Visual and Critical Studies)

To Lemon Hill is project whereby Syrian refugee children can access education in Turkey. Established as a Saturday programme, the children are bussed to a school where volunteer teachers and high school students teach Turkish and other subjects.

Instructa-Coop built a chicken coop on the City Slickers Farms community park and farm in West Oakland. Additionally, they constructed a small-scale information board about the chicken coop and designed a website to educate the public about urban, backyard chicken raising.

To address the sanitation issue of local pigs roaming freely in Puerto el Morro, Ecuador, Puerto el Morro Pig Project designed and built a pig pen in collaboration with local community members. Taking into consideration the cultural importance of pigs to this community, they introduced a safe, sturdy, and comfortable space for the pigs that provided food, shade, water, and rest.

20/20 Foto is a cross border community action involving the youth from two different border towns: El Paso, TX and Juarez, Mexico. The group documented, through visual storytelling, how these towns were affected by regional violence.

KVAK TV is a web-based portrait of the small coastal village of Kivalina, Alaska. The resulting website, written solely by Kivalina youth, tells the story of what life is like for them in their small town of only 440 inhabitants.

IMPACT Skyline proposed an innovative and collaborative new working environment at Skyline High School. The team thought creatively about building and space, used interactive technology, and provided professional development workshops for teachers.

Social Craft
Collaborators: Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology
Bangalore, India

Cara Levine (MFA Sculpture)

Nicholas Morris (BFA Sculpture)

Cassie Thornton (MFA Social Practice)

Working with local experts, Social Craft proposed a five-week-long course at Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology in Bangalore. The course involved building an actual house on campus to explore the boundaries between education and life; the project built a lasting relationship between the two colleges.